To the right honorable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament at Westminster. The humble petition of the knights, gentry, clergie, and commonalty of the county of Sussex. Presented to both Houses upon Wednesday last, June 7. 1648. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94660 of text R210823 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.12[42]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A94660 Wing T1688 Thomason 669.f.12[42] ESTC R210823 99869580 99869580 162835 2240946021

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94660) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162835) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f12[42]) To the right honorable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament at Westminster. The humble petition of the knights, gentry, clergie, and commonalty of the county of Sussex. Presented to both Houses upon Wednesday last, June 7. 1648. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1648] Imprint from Wing. Petition for a personal treaty between the King and Parliament. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Sussex (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A94660 R210823 (Thomason 669.f.12[42]). civilwar no To the right honorable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament at Westminster. The humble petition of the knights, gentry, clergie, an anon. 1648 1 352 3 0 0 0 0 0 85 D The rate of 85 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS and COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT at Westminster . The humble Petition of the Knights , Gentry , Clergie , and Commonalty of the County of SUSSEX . Presented to both Houses upon Wednesday last , June 7. 1648. SHEWETH ,

THat the miserable effects of this civil War vnder which our Count●●e , and three Kingdoms have long and heavily groaned , are the onely motives of these our humble and fervent Desires h●reby propounded to Your Honours .

1. That our most gracious Soveraign Lord King CHARLES may be speed●ly and honourably received to a safe Treatie with the two Houses of Parliament , for the firm setling of a wel grounded Peace both in Church and Common-wealth , as also of his own just Rights , and of the Rights of Parliament . 2. That the Arrears of the Army vnder the command of the Lord Fairfax may be paid , and the Armie with all expedition disbanded . 3. That according to the Fundamental Constitutions of this Kingdome we may be governed by the known Laws of this Kingdome , and not otherwise . 4. That from henceforth our estates and goods may be freed from all Taxes and Impositions . 5. That no Garrisons within the said Countie be any longer continued , and that the Ordnance and Ammunition taken from the Sea Towns may be returned for the better defence of them and the whole Countrie from forraign Invasions .

We therefore ( as the Well-affected Counties have already ) doe humbly pray You to yeeld a present condescention to our humble Desires , That so our differences and divisions may be happily composed , all misunderstandings between Prince and People timely removed , His Majesty ( according to our solemn Engagement ) rendred glorious , both King and Kingdome returned to their pristine dignity and splendor at home and abroad , and your selves thereby merit the gratefull and universall acclamations of good and faithfull Patriots .

And your Petitioners shall pray , &c.